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Berlioz: L'Enfance du Christ

BBC Radio 3
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A Sacred Trilogy (sung in French) direct from the Royal Festival Hall, London
' The first performance of the Childhood of Christ took place. The next day I received a letter from Heine: " I hear from all sides, that you have picked a garland of the most exquisite flowers of melody and that everything in your oratorio is a masterpiece of simplicity." '
(BERLIOZ: Memoirs)
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA
CHOIR chorus-master TERRY EDWARDS
ENGLISH CHAMBER ORCHESTRA leader jose-luis GARCIA , conducted by Sir Charles Groves Part 1: Herod's Dream

Contributors

Chorus-Master:
Terry Edwards
Leader:
Jose-Luis Garcia
Unknown:
Sir Charles Groves
Mary:
With Janet Baker
Joseph:
Ian Caddy
Herod and:
Donald McLntyre
the Ishmaelite:
Father, And
the Narrator:
Peter Pears
Source: Radio Times

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